
75 minutes
4/19/1977
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.

David Burke
as Cardinal Volponi

Tom Bell
as Col. Steiner
Alan Downer
as Vogel's Secretary

William Hoyland
as Volponi's Secretary

Richard Leech
as General Heidelmann

Gabrielle Lloyd
as Maria Cinelli
Stephen Muray
as Pope Pius XII

Trevor Peacock
as Father Borrelli

Tim Pigott-Smith
as Consul Vogel

Robert Putt
as Prison Guard

Christopher Saul
as Chamberlain

Sebastian Shaw
as Abbot General